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,WEDT IKSMA ,. AV. 11, 1949
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I'd Rather Be Right
e, SAMNUEL GRAFToN
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NEW YORK, Aug. 10- The fuss aohut the
State Department has now grown up from a
grade-b controversy to a grade-a controversy.
For years it was no bigger than a man's hand.
There;was, really, no State Departm~ent contro-
versy at all. There were oily a few men here
and there wondering why vwe qld;oil and steel ,to
Japan, and whether Petain had wings.
But, behold, now it is on the front page of the
New York Times, where Mr. John H. Crider has
reported on a supposed "clash .of personalities"
in the Department. Mr. Crider cites reports that
two of Secretary Hull's .assistants refer to him
"by use of an odious epithet." and that foreign
diplomats sometimes come away with two or
three different statements of policy on a given
question after conferring with two or three
different State pepartment officials.
A feeling of functional disorder within the
pepartrnent comes out of Mr. Crider's story.
This is a ,little different from the older quarrel
over the State.Department's policies.
If we were to .add up the current charges
against the Department in the cruelest -fashion,
we might say that the Department stands ac-
cused today of having a wrong policy toward
democratic .movements in Europe, and that it
also stands accused of inefficiency in carrying
out its ,wrong policy.
Mr. Arthur Krock of the Times has offered an
explanation. He declares that the President has
been rather high-handed with Mr. Hull; that
the President has not allowed Mr. Hull to pick
his own.chiefaides; that the President appoint-
ed Mr. Sumner Welles, for example, as Under
Secretary; that the President and Mr. Welles
work closely together, sometimes by-passing Mr.
Hull in forming and explaining foreign policy.
But .Mr. Mark Sullivan in the New York Her-
ald Tribune, has a different story. He declares
that the President stands "firmly behind" Mr.
Hull. Mr. Sullivan says that if there is any con-
flict, it is way down in the lower levels of the
organization, among the "ideology" boys, who
want us to establish democracy in conquered
euntries as we take them. Mr. Sullivan gives
the top officers, including the President, what
he considers a clean bill of health. He says they
are not interested in establishing democracy im-
mediately in conquered countries at all.
What really goes on here? Mr. Krock favors
our "expediency" deals, such as our deal with
Darlan. And he favors Mr. Hull. Mr. Sullivan
also favors our "expediency" deals. And he fav-
ors Mr. Hull.
Can this mean that the quarrel over our
"expediency" deals, which rages in public, now
rages within the Denartment, too; that if
there is an organizational problem in the De-
partment, this dispute has created it; that,
perhaps, Mr. Welles is turning against "ex-
pediency;" that the Department is showing
signs of some such change going on deep in-
side?
It may be that the whole State Department
story is not one of plot and counter-plot, nor
even of clash of personalities. It may be a quite
simple story, of a Department which has ap-
proached foreign affairs without any firm for-
eign policy at all, and has therefore improvised
and played hunches. It has adopted expedien-
cies because if you don't have a policy you have
to be expedient.
Maybe the whole country's confusion on the
kind of world it wants to live in has been accur-
ately mirrored for years by a confused State De-
partment. It may be that our own indecisive-
ness as to what we want has at last shown itself
up as a functional disorder in the Department
charged with making the kind of world we want.
The only remedy. then, would be the adop-
ion of a foreign policy at last, a solid policy
on the kind of Italy, Gcrmrany, etc., we wish to
live with, and on lasting alliances with our
allies. Perhaps the Department isn't ticking
because the whole country isn't ticking on
these issues.
,Marion Ford
.$ud Brimmer
Leon Gordenker
Harvey Frank
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NIGHT EDITOR: VIRGINIA ROCK
Editorials published in The Michigan Daily
are written by members of The Daily staff
and represent the views of the writers only.
Straight ,brow. the Shoulder
B.y CHIPSs..
IF YOU are a progressive, and a unfounded views of Professor Slos- the truly democratic elements, bit
dynamic one, you would have been son and Pfc. Bigman on Russia. the dust time and time again.
dismayed by the letters addressed to Nor do I believe that the majority I am sure that the vast majority of
The Daily, especially those on politi- of Ann Arborites favor letting the us, do not want to see fascism, com-
cal issues. They are, in the over- Germans go scot free as do Pfc. munism, or a return to the good old
whelming majority, so stubbornly re- Belikoff and Corporal Don lrvin. days of 1920's in this country after
actionary as to drive those liberals Rather I think they felt that it the war. But we are practically ask-
who are a little shaky in their faith was not worth the trouble to discuss ing for it, if we give the reactionaries
to pitiful despair. Especially is this these issues, and that is where they a chance to capture the stronghold
true of letters written by servicemen, made their crucial mistake. For it is of democracy, the youth in the school
Now I admit that we don't get very only by discussion, and plenty of it, and the armed services.
many letters, and that fewer still deal that sane and sou'd decisions can be There is only one way we can
with political subjects, but those at t arrived at in a democracy. avoid it-that is to propagate our
we do get are a confused mass of own realistic and dynamic ideas,
false sentiment and plain reactionary HE worst mistake of progres- in specific form, and to combat the
bunk. sives in all the countries of the insidious poison of reactinares
I don't mean to imply by this world was their abandonment of a afd sentimentalists. it is o.dis-
that the student body and the ser- dynamic colorful, fighting course cuss again and again with one an-
vicemen stationed in Ann Arbor of action. The mistake was made other and with our democratic nv-
are totally devoid of liberal and not only by political parties, but by als, our own plans for the world
progressive opinion, but it seems to individuals who felt that the ex- of the future till .we are so sure of
me that they keep their opinions pression of their ideas on a vital what we want, that no power on
too much to themselves. For ex- question, or their active partici- earth will be able to bar us from
ample, I cannot believe that the pation in the promotion of their attaining our goals.
majority of the campus shares the ideas, was not vitally important. For ideas are the weapons of a
vicious and in large part, totally Since that view, unfortunately was democracy, and its democratic in-
not held by the reactionaries, the habitants. To keep silent, for what-
communists, and the fascists, these ever reason, is to throw away our
groups aternately triumphed while most fundamental right.
GRIN AND PEAR ITy
Editor's Note: The following letters
4IRS
were received from soldiers overseas
and are .in esponse to cigarettes sent
to them by this campus through the
"Share Your Smokes" drive of last1
April That drive was sonsored by
the Union and The Michigan Daily.
To the StudentIody:
Thanksa million forthe cigarettes.
I got them here in the British Isles. 5
Your project is a swell one and is
greatly appreciated by those of us
here. This war should be over soonY1
and then we will all come home and
return to our respective schools. I £
was a junior at New York University
before entering the Army.~-
--Pvt..Milt Schwartz
To the Students:
I received your cigarettes bearing °'' {''1a
,tle kindly message "Good luck, Good
Smoking from the Michigan Student
Body." I appreciate them from the
bottom of my heart. It was a gift
well-needed and well-received by all /
the Army men. -Pvt. S. Vergroger
To Michigan Students:U
The cigarettes were just like your
famous football teams-plenty O.
It surely was a grand gesture on your O p-q :ie
part. My best wishes to the "student .1 0t M ~a - 'h
body" and for people like you, fight-
ing the enemy will lead us to Victory. "White fella promise we each get jeep after war-white fella say day
--pl. James Donelly will come when jeep vil replace spear
DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN
SUBSIDY PLAN A FAILURE:
Government Monopoly on Food Is Only Solution
To Prevent inflation with Business Approval
AKING the last final steps toward the ,pre-
vention of inflation and the equitable distri-
bution of foodstuffs, the administration is pre-
paring a program of government purchase and
resale of all major crops and meat.
Similar to the present food-price control
now operating in Great Britain, this move
would spell the death or complete taking-
over by the government of grocers, both whole-
sale and retail, as the present plan calls for
purchase fropn the original food producer.
Distasteful as such an arrangement would be
to American businessmen, especially food whole-
salers and retailers, it or some similar food-price
control system from the source appears to be
necessary in the light of present .events if the
danger of rising prices is to be curbed.
The OPA and business cooperation with the
administration to halt inflation have failed
lamentably. There has been no cooperation.
Right now it looks as if American business
wants inflation.
Yell as business may, it is their lack of cooper-
ation in the keeping down of prices that has
brought about this suggested program. In the
long run, it will probably prove the only way to
bring the already runaway situation under con-
trol.
THE COMPLETE FAILURE of price rollbacks
as far as meat is concerned hasproved the
necessity for some other and more effective con-
trol of prices.
When food is sold over the, regular ceiling
and the public accepts the violation, pays for
ItWand makes no. complaint,.not even knowing
that it has been swindled half the time, the
need for any program-that will work becomes
apparent.
Grocers and restaurants have upped their pri-
ces as .much as possible. Although restaurant
food prices are held to the April 4-10 level, that
level was extremely high in itself. The cost of
living is skyrocketing and only stringent meas-
ures can pull it down again.
Food prices have had to rise, because the farm-
YOUTH:
18-Yea r-Olds Should
Demand Voting Rights
TOUTH has its fling.
According to recent statements of Chairman
Hatch, a Senate judiciary subcommittee will be-
_gin early hearings on the two-year-old Vanden-
berg resolution involving an amendment to the
Constitution lowering the federal voting age to
18.
The strongest backing for this measure
comes from legislators who agree that if 18-
year-olds are old enough to fight, they are old
enough to vote, but there is more to be said in
favor of a youthful electorate than this. Be-
cause of the educational standards in the ma-
jority of states, a course in civics, or govern-
ment is required of .high school graduates,
making 18-year-olds well prepared for their
role of voting citizens. For the majority of0the
body politic, this high school training is as
far as they go in the formal understanding of
the workings ot government.
Questions of jitterbugging immaturity and
-emotional instability are time-worn, but a re-
-lHrtiomn on similar issues of weakness in the
,er upped his prices, thereby forcing the whole-
saler and retailer to follow suit. The subsidy
plan should have kept farm prices low, but for
some strange reason, the subsidy plan has proved
a complete bust.
BUSINESS OPPOSITION to subsidation has
had a great deal to do with this failure. And
business wants a government controlled food
monopoly just about as much as it wants .subsi-
dies.
As long as big business opposes with all the
powerful means it:possesses every government
prqgram to ,ontrol prices, and as long as -bus-
iness opposition remains more effective than
governnent control, .a plan such as this food
monopoly, whereby ;government control is
complete and business takes a beating is inev-
itable.
If the internal war between business and the
administration is not terminated pretty soon,
nothing will save this country from -inflation,
although the food monopoly appears to -be one
of the better plans that have been advocated,
-Jane Farrant
'UNDER COVER':
anneti's .Com ittee
Exposed as Fascistic
POMPOUS FRANK ,GANNETT and his brain-
child, the Committee for Constitutional Gov-
ernment, are in for a rough expose.
The publication of "Under Cover," sensational
book charging -Fascistic activities to this and
many other American groups, has rfrightened
Qannett.into conducting a nationwide campaign
of intimidation .against any bookseller, news-
paper or radio station selling or supporting the
book.
:This book was written by a man who posed'
as a Fascist sympathizer and spent years in-
.vestigating Fascist - tinged organizations,
,American super-patriots and -,Nazi agents in
the country. The author, writing under the
pseudonym of John Roy Carlson, mentioned
Cannett .nly twice in his iook, but his ciom-
,Mittee, ,headed by Edward A. Ruxnely, who
served a sentence in AtlantaFederal Peniten-
tiary in -1920 for -his activities as a German
agent in War I, came in for a more searching
study.
This same Rumely bought the New ,York -Eve-
ning Mail-from Germany and operated it, on be-
half of Germany, from 1915 to 1918.
IN HIS THREATENING LE'TTER to booksell-
ers, Qannett staunchly defends his choice of
Rumely, and when questioned he hotly denied
that the pr o-German .charges ~against Rumely
were true.
-In -his attempt to suppress the book, Gannett
is. admitting that the charges are true. He knows
that -his reputation and position .as -Republican
presidential candidate are jeopardized by the
incriminating expose of the committee's work.
This . committee has distributed thousands
-of pamphletsehafgIng the New-Deal and$other
liberal forces with attemptingsto wreckconsti-
tutional government in the United States.
If this were not true, and if the other charges
made in "Under Cover" were not true, Frank
Gannett would not be afraid to let the book ap-
pear on the stands; he would not be afraid to
take an open stand against "John Roy Carlson"
and his claims.
I
the
the
am willing, .after four years of opposition to
Department, to say that perhaps it is only
mirror of us all. Is that fair?
(Copyright, 1943. N-.Y. Post Syndicate)
DREW 0T
PEARSON'S
OR K
MERRY-00-ROUND
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.- It looks as if the
whiskey distillers never learn. For more than a
week they have been closeted with the War Pro-
duction Board trying to put over a deal whereby
they will be permitted to resume manufacture of
whiskey on a limited scale-even at a time when
the nation is so desperately hard up for feed
grain that it is feeding wheat to cattle instead
of humans.
To start the distilling of whiskey would mean
a further use of grain, thus depleting the supply
for cattle, hogs and chickens.
Despite this, the whiskey distillers, have been
waving the constitution, roaring about invol-
untary wattime prohibition and arguing that
there are ample stocks of war alcohol on hand.
The latter, of course, is true. Alcohol stocks
are ample and the manufacture of explosives has
been curtailed. However, two counter-factors
have been pointed out by WPB officials. One is
the discovery of several new uses for alcohol.
One of these is an important war use, so far a
carefully guarded secret, which may require
more alcohol.
The Agriculture Department has already
warned livestock producers to. conserve feed.
Yet at the same time, the distillers have been
lobbying their ears off to divert grain to whis-
key.
Fourth Term
Close friends who have talked with the Presi-
dent lately are not at all sure he wants to run
for a 4th Term. Naturally, he is not telling even
his closest intimates what his real hopes are,
any more than he told anyone prior to the 3rd
Term convention in 1940.
But one or two hints that he has dropped
lead frieds to- believe that the President, em-
phatically would not run again if the war is
won, and would run only reluctantly if the war
is still in progress.
However, there is one ambition he deeply cher-
ishes, namely to help write a permanent peace.
Having taken an active part in the last war as
Assistant Secretary of the Navy and having seen
the "war to end wars" turn into an abortive and
stymied peace, the President wants more than
anything else not to repeat Woodrow Wilson's
failure.
Therefore it is not beyond the realm of possi-
bility that to bring about a non-partisan peace
treaty, Roosevelt would be willing to make an
agreement with a broad-gauged Republican who
supports his foreign policy, whereby that Repub-
lican would get the nod, for the White House, if
FDR in turn sat at the head of the Peace Con-
ference.
Should this not materialize and should the
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WEDNESDAY, AUG. 11, 1943
VOL. LIII, No. 32-S
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tin are to be sent to the Office of the
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Notices
P.E.M. (Phys. Edu. for Men): The
few men students who have failed to
register for P.E.M. are reminded of
the following Board of Regent's rul- '
ing:
That as a condition to continued
attendance in the University a phys-
ical conditioning course be required
of students who, at the beginning of
a particular term, are regularly en-
rolled in the University.
Notice of Withholding Tax Deduc-
tions: All persons upon the Univer-
sity Payrolls for services rendered
after June 30, 1943, are notified that
under the federal "Current Tax Pay-
ment Act of 1943" -there will be de-
ducted from each salary payment
made an amount equivalent to 20 per
cent of such payment above legal
elected, under Federal authority, to
base this deduction, after legal ex-r
emptions, upon 20 per cent of the
salary payment to each individual
calculated to the nearest dollar. Ev-
ery employee of the University, in
whatever capacity, should secure, at
the Business Office, or at other of-
fices at which they will be available,
a copy of the Government withhold-
ing exemption certificate, Form W-4,
and should promptly fill out and
mail or file this exemption certifi-
cate at the Business Office at which
the certificate was obtained. The
burden of filling out and filing this
form is under the law exclusively
upon the employee and if it is - not
filed in time the deduction of 20 per
cent must be taken upon the basis of
the employee's entire earnings with-
out benefit of the exemption to
which the employee would be en-
titled if he or she filed the certifi-
auspices of the Program in Regional Department of Speech at 3 p.m.
Administration and Construction. in the Rackham Amphitheatre.
Dean J. B. Edmonson, Dean of the
School of Education, will deliver a
lecture in the School of Education
Afternoon lecture series with a talk
on, "Planning for Community Bet-
terment." The lecture will be given
'at 4:-10 in the University High School
auditorium and the public is invited.
Academic Notices
Trigonometry Course; If there is
sufficient demand for the second
half of Mathematics 7, the equiva-
lent of Mathematics 8, Trigonome-
try, a section will be formed at 11
o'clock, MTuThF, beginning Aug. 23,
for the second half of the summer
tea'm, 2 hours credit. Those who
would wish to take this course, please
leave their names in the office of
the Mathematics Department, 3012
Angell Hall.
Candidates for the Teacher's Cer-
tificate for August and October 1943:
Please call at the office of the School
of Education, 1437 University Ele-
mentary School on Wednesday or
Thursday, Aug. 11 and 12, between
1:30 and .4:30 to take the Teacher's
Oath. This is a requirement for the
certificate.
Concerts
School of Music Assembly: Feri
Roth, violinist, and Mabel Ross
Rhead, pianist, of the School of Mu-
sic faculty, will present a program
consisting of two Beethoven Sonatas
for violin and piano at 3:00 p.m.,
Friday, Aug. 13, in the Rackham As-
sembly Hall. Open to the public.
Events Today
The . English Language Institute
will hold a meeting this evening in
the West Conference .Room of the
-Rackham Building at 8:00 o'clock.
Miss Clotilde Pujol, of Havana, Cuba,
The Karl Marx Society is having
the second in a series of discussions
this evening, Aug. 11, at 7:45 p.m. at
the Union. The discussion, will be on
"Can Communists and Non-Coin-
munists United?"
French tea today at 4 o'clock in
the Cafeteria of the Michigian
League.
Michigan Dames Bridge Group:
Michigan League, 8:15 p.m.
Hispanic Club meets this evening
at 8 p.m. in the lichigan League.
The formal program will include a
talk in Spanish by Dr.-Fernando Lara
of Santiago, Chile, on "Costumbres
Sociales de Chile" and a speech in
Portguguese by Dr. Vasco Barcellos
of Niteroi, Brazil, on "Saude Publica
no Brasil." Dr. Lara is one of the
group of Latin-American dentists
-who arrived here last week for the
Public Health Program, and Dr. Bar-
cellos is the Director of the Public
Health Center in Niteroi. All ser-
vicemen and students interested in
Spanish and Portguguese are invited
to attend.
Delta Kappa Gamma members
from other chapters are invited to a
tea to be given by the local chapter
at 4 o'clock Wednesday afternoon,
Aug. 11, in the Mary B. Henderson
Room at the Michigan League.
The Inter-Racial Association pre-
sents Mr. Tsume Baba speaking on
his experiences in the Relocation
Camps on the West Coast this eve-
ning at 8 o'clock at the Union.
Coming Events
Pi Lambda Theta Supper Meeting:
Xi Chapter of Pi Lambda Theta, Na-
tional Honor Association of women
in education, will have a supper
meeting Thursday, Aug. 12, at 6 p.m.
in the Michigan League Garden. Mrs.
Mary Lou Chanter and Miss Marie
Wallis will entertain the group. Miss-
es Mary Ellen Dedman and Corine
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